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Apr 2, 2020 · Updated on April 02, 2020. Franz Kafka (July 3, 1883 – June 3, 1924) was a Czech novelist and short-story writer, widely considered one of the most important literary figures of the 20th century. Kafka was a natural writer, though he worked as a lawyer, and his literary merit went largely unrecognized during his short lifetime.
Prague-born writer Franz Kafka wrote in German, and his stories, such as " The Metamorphosis " (1916), and posthumously published novels, including The Trial (1925), concern troubled individuals in a nightmarishly impersonal world. Jewish middle-class family of this major fiction writer of the 20th century spoke German.
6 days ago · Franz Kafka. What we learn about Kafka from his uncensored diaries. On the centenary of his death, a new English translation of the great writer’s journals reveals some surprising details....
The Metamorphosis (German: Die Verwandlung) is a novella written by Franz Kafka and first published in 1915. One of Kafka's best-known works, Metamorphosis tells the story of salesman Gregor Samsa, who wakes one morning to find himself inexplicably transformed into a huge insect ( German : ungeheueres Ungeziefer , lit. " monstrous vermin ") and ...
3 days ago · Author Franz Kafka’s life was far from kafkaesque, biopic shows. Man who emerges from German TV series is a far cry from myth of tortured artist alienated from his family and job. Philip ...
Franz Kafka, (born July 3, 1883, Prague, Bohemia, Austria-Hungary—died June 3, 1924, Kierling, near Vienna, Austria), Czech writer who wrote in German. Born into a middle-class Jewish family, he earned a doctorate and then worked successfully but unhappily at a government insurance office from 1907 until he was forced by a case of ...
As an artist who willfully cultivated his own marginality, Franz Kafka became a symbol, to many, of the millions of people reeling from the political and cultural dislocations of the 20th century.
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